Example sentences of "to get [pers pn] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 2 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 3 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 4 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps she did it , to get him into a jolly big row . |
| 6 | to get him into a home . |
| 7 | I do n't think I can find her lodgings , but I could try to get her into a home . |
| 8 | ‘ She thinks they 're trying to get her into a home . ’ |
| 9 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 10 | To get her into a routine , I started leaving food out at the same time and place every day , always whistling the same tune , so that she would associate it with being fed . |
| 11 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 12 | This enables us to use a stereotaxic instrument to guide probes like lesion-making electrodes into the brain at known distances in front of , to one side of , and below one of these landmarks and guarantee to get it into a selected subcortical area . |
| 13 | It was a great thing to get HE into a village to see conditions and what needs to be done , and I was able to press home some of my own ideas about village life and health . |